Basha
#13,454 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Basha has been given to 185 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #13,454 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Basha, 2025
1 in 553,000
Basha over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Basha?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,454
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Basha sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Basha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Bashas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Basha was born before 1997 — so the typical Basha is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 34.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 185
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (64).
Is Basha rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +2,197
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 54.5%
- Peak was 2000 (11)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.4% average annual change
Spellings of Basha
Basha is not the most common spelling — Marsha is, with 25.5% against Basha's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Basha is used
Across 1910–2025, Basha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,136,945 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Basha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Basha by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Basha
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Basha
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.